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MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms
Khoo writes "Worm writers are threatening to attack antivirus companies F-Secure, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee.
In the latest version of MyDoom--MyDoom.AE--the authors embedded a message ridiculing rival worm Netsky and promising to attack the antivirus companies."
Isn't this like the virus companies threating to shoot themselves....? Oh, hang on, they don't really write all the virii... :)
"If A equals success, then the formua is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut" - A Einstein.
Hey Netsky! Nice code, did your mommmy write it for you?!
I think it's time to panic. We know virus writers always tell the truth and would never engage in deception or hyperbole. Therefore this must be true.
I reccomend we immediately declare western civilization over to beat them to the punch.
There, got my sarcasm out for the day. Now to go to work and refuel it.
"The Sage treasures Unity and measures all things by it" - Lao Tzu
I considered modding you down to help keep your message "low key"...
Open-Source at it's best
"i thought we settled this a long time ago, the term varies depending on the number... viri for one, virii for two, viriii for three, viriv for four, virv for five, and so on..."
I bet a ninja could stop your alliance of unstoppable destructive machines.
Thats because Ninjas have Real Ultimate Power.
Now, if a virus could somehow enact the power of 10,000 ninjas on the internet, then it would be unstoppable, they would all go and stab your webserver in the eye, and they wouldn't even flinch.
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Back in reality, I'm watching out for the lower level Router attacks, or an attack of some type on the DNS roots. Whilst we believe we have the infrastructure to cope, I believe it will be a much more serious problem than DoSing somebodies website. Only recently we had a scare, and the powers that be hushed up and covered up to give themselves some room.
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Let's see here, if you go for the old tin-foil belief that the virus companies write the virii to create a need for their software, and the attacks are real... Hmmm.
F-Secure: Check
Symantec: Check
Trend Micro: Check
McAfee: Check
So that leaves... grisoft, Avast, and a couple dozen smaller companies. It's a conspiracy! THE BASTARDS!
~D
This sig has been enciphered with a one-time pad. It could say almost anything.
I think you'll find the plural is 'viruses'
yeah sure, next time you gonna tell us that the plural of box is boxes and not boxen...
Ah, Fond memories of the old HCF ( Halt and catch fire) op code. ;-)
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He should include his full résumé, address and phone number in the next one.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If the MyDoom writers want to mess up antivirus companies, why don't they just do it and be totally quiet about it? The only thing worse than an attack is one that you don't see coming. To top that off, they could have made a different virus to attack antivirus firms and make the antivirus firms think it was the netsky writers that did it. And then someone could make a movie about it and play it on TNT because they know drama.
I am just the average Joe, who is brainwashed by such renowned companies as Microsoft into believing that it is not the software companies that make the mistakes, but the people who make the things that cause the mistakes to trigger!
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My Doom3 is better than your MyDoom! Nyeah!
Um, this isn't "Slashdot, news for english majors..."
We really need to get the guy who does the voice of Invader Zim to read your post...
Where's Bob the Angry Flower when you need him?